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Anchorage Museum
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The Anchorage Museum connects people, expands perspectives, and encourages global dialogue about the North and its distinct environment.
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The Anchorage Museum connects people, expands perspectives, and encourages global dialogue about the North and its distinct environment.
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The Anchorage Museum connects people, expands perspectives, and encourages global dialogue about the North and its distinct environment.
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Smithsonian Arctic Studies Center 1
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The Smithsonian Arctic Studies Center features floor-to-ceiling artifact cases and a video installation which plays on floormounted flat screens. The graphics in the cases depict contemporary Alaska Native life.
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The Smithsonian Arctic Studies Center features floor-to-ceiling artifact cases and a video installation which plays on floormounted flat screens. The graphics in the cases depict contemporary Alaska Native life.
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Elaine Kingeekuk (left) and Sonya Kelliher- Combs examine a gut parka during a Material Traditions Gut Sewing Residency at the Smithsonian Arctic Studies Center at the Anchorage Museum.
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Discovery Center 1
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The Discovery Center includes the BP Kinetic Space, focusing on physics, such as principles of energy, force and motion.
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Atwood Alaska Resource Center 1
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Art of the North 1
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Visitors explore art, science and culture of the North at the Anchorage Museum.
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Visitors explore art, science and culture of the North at the Anchorage Museum.
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Anchorage Museum Collections
Alaska Native writer Joan Kane studies objects in the Anchorage Museum collection as part of her Polar Lab artist project.
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Muse 1
The Anchorage Museum’s elegant and contemporary restaurant Muse offers fresh, handcrafted Alaska cuisine, in a vibrant downtown setting.
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Muse 2
The Anchorage Museum’s elegant and contemporary restaurant Muse offers fresh, handcrafted Alaska cuisine with indoor and outdoor seating.
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The Anchorage Museum’s elegant and contemporary restaurant Muse offers fresh, handcrafted Alaska cuisine, in a vibrant downtown setting.
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The Anchorage Museum’s elegant and contemporary restaurant Muse offers fresh, handcrafted Alaska cuisine, in a vibrant downtown setting.
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The Anchorage Museum’s elegant and contemporary restaurant Muse offers fresh, handcrafted Alaska
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Enjoy distinctive cuisine featuring local Alaska ingredients at Muse, the Anchorage Museum's restaurant.
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Museum Director Julie Decker
Julie Decker is the Director and CEO of the Anchorage Museum at Rasmuson Center, Alaska’s premier art, history, science and cultural institution.
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Museum Interventions 1
Through artist residencies, temporary installations, performance works and popup programs with artists from Alaska and around the world, the Anchorage Museum provides and presents an inside look at the complexity of the North and its issues. In “Out of the Box” Alaska Native artists and culture bearers responded to an exhibition about Captain Cook with a performance on the commodification of culture.
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Museum Interventions 2
Through artist residencies, temporary installations, performance works and popup programs with artists from Alaska and around the world, the Anchorage Museum provides and presents an inside look at the complexity of the North and its issues. In “Out of the Box” Alaska Native artists and culture bearers responded to an exhibition about Captain Cook with a performance on the commodification of culture.
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Outdoor Programs
The Anchorage Museum activates spaces around the museum, including outdoor concerts and programs. Lunch on the Lawn is a weekly program on the museum’s lawn with live music, food trucks and activities during the summer months.
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Polar Lab 1
The Anchorage Museum activates spaces around the museum, including turning galleries into stages. Pulse Dance Company presented “in darkness and light” as part of the Anchorage Museum’s Polar Lab.
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Polar Lab 2
Working with traditional and non-traditional researchers in residencies, exhibitions and public programs, the Anchorage Museum conveys narratives through contemporary art, science and culture, placing Northern people at the center of a current and pivotal narrative around the environment and global change.
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Polar Lab 3
The Anchorage Museum invites international artists to engage the North through short and long-term projects and non-traditional residencies. Artists enter the museum and the North to present insider views of relevant issues impacting northern people and places. Artist Derek Coté records sounds for his Polar Lab project.
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Polar Lab 4
The Anchorage Museum invites international artists to engage the North through short and long-term projects and non-traditional residencies. Artists enter the museum and the North to present insider views of relevant issues impacting northern people and places. Derek Coté and Paul Hass rehearse with the Anchorage Symphony Orchestra as part of their Polar Lab project.
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The Anchorage Museum invites international artists to engage the North through short and long-term projects and non-traditional residencies. Artists enter the museum and the North to present insider views of relevant issues impacting northern people and places. Artist John Grade made a cast of an Arctic tree for his Polar Lab project.
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Polar Lab 6
The Anchorage Museum sent a visual artist, a poet, curator, educator and a filmmaker into the Arctic desert – Kobuk Valley National Park, one of the least-visited national parks in the United States – to discover its distinguishing characteristics, its role in the lives of residents who border it, and to experience why it has become a center for research into the potential for life on Mars.
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Greenlandic tattoo artist Maya Jacobsen joined Anchorage-based Iñupiaq artist Holly Nordlum in an exploration of the cultural significance of traditional tattooing. Jacobsen tattooed Nordlum’s arm and chin using traditional skin-stitch techniques. Part of the Polar Lab’s Urban Interventions series to empower youth through healthy creative expression.
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Polar Lab 8
The Anchorage Museum invites international artists to engage the North through short and long-term projects and non-traditional residencies. Artists enter the museum and the North to present insider views of relevant issues impacting northern people and places. Dutch photographer Jeroen Toirkens traveled to one of the most isolated places in Alaska, the island of Little Diomede.
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Polar Lab 9
Polar Lab artist in residence Paul Walde listens to the sound of the tide underneath the ice on the Kuskokwim River. The Anchorage Museum invites international artists to engage the North through short and long-term projects and non-traditional residencies.
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Polar Nights
The Friday night series Polar Nights enlivens Anchorage nights through activities centering around art, culture, the environment, and the way northern urbanites gather and meet. Part of the Anchorage Museum’s Polar Lab, a series of programs exploring life in the North. Selected galleries and spaces are open late every Friday, and admission is half the usual price.
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The museum curates and creates conversations as we curate objects and exhibitions, to raise awareness and to advocate for a genuine voice of the North at a time when it is endlessly
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Spark!Lab
Spark!Lab Smithsonian encourages kids and families to explore their inventive creativity - to create, innovate, collaborate and problem-solve.
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Thomas Planetarium
The Thomas Planetarium at the Anchorage Museum focuses on astronomy, the Earth’s atmosphere and the solar system.
ANCHORAGE MUSEUM ATRIUM EVENT
A hallmark marble staircase provides a striking backdrop to both intimate and large events in the Anchorage Museum atrium. Photo by Jody Overstreet courtesy Anchorage Museum.
ANCHORAGE MUSEUM ATRIUM EVENT
Contemporary architectural design, customizable lighting, and on-site catering featuring Alaska cuisine make the Anchorage Museum’s atrium an distinctive choice for both large and small events. Photo by Jody Overstreet courtesy Anchorage Museum.
MUSE CATERING
The Anchorage Museum’s on-site catering offers fresh Alaskan fare along with creative takes on crowd favorites. Photo by Chris Arend courtesy Anchorage Museum.
BLACKENED ROCKFISH TACOS AT MUSE
The Anchorage Museum’s on-site restaurant offers fresh fare with creative takes on Alaska seafood, along with an array of handcrafted sandwiches, soups and elegant entrees. Photo by courtesy of Anchorage Museum.
